Active Member

What are you going to be using the VHS recorder for? I ask this because it affects how you connect the equipment. If you're going to be copying VHS tapes to DVD then obviously you would need to output to be fed via the DVDR, otherwise if you just want to play old VHS tapes sometines then you could just connect it to one of the spare Scarts on the TV.

Standard Member

For the best possible recording quality you need to connect the TV out of the Sky box to AV1 or AV2 of the RD-XS32 (I think AV2 is the convention here). Then connect the RD-XS32 to your TV via component. I am pretty sure the XS32 will convert the incoming signal from the Sky box to component for you. Then just connect the VCR to the TV with another Scart.

My TV doesn't have component and only has one RGB-capable Scart so I connect AV1 of the RD-XS32 to that Scart. There's a button on the RD-XS32 remote which shorts AV1 and AV2 together so you can prevent the onscreen messages (say when you are copying from HDD to DVD) from interfering with what you are watching. I do not know if that same function works with the component out.